SPIRITUALISTIC CURES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2392, 16 November 1880, Page 4

SPIRITUALISTIC CURES.

The Dunedin “ Star” has been permitted to make the following extract from the letter of a Dunedinite now in Melbou me : I went to see Mr Milner Stephen who is now here. I was passing by the Temperance Hall and saw a crowd of people standing in front. There were the lame, the halt, the blind, and the deaf. So I made inquiry and learned that Mr Milner Stephen, the Sydney barrister, was to operate on the poor that afternoon. When they opened the visitors’ door I went in, but a young lady standing at the door asked me for my order. I told her 1 was unaware that an order was required. She said “ Oh yes,” but she could not find it in her heart to send me away, and she placed mo on the platform next to Mr Stephen, leaving the crowd to rush in through the unguarded door. When everything was arranged Mr Stephen said ‘‘Suppose any of yoii find any relief through me you must thank (ml, not me, for it; I am only the instrument in his hands.” Then he called for those who were snlfering acutely, whereupon a woman aged eighty was carried forward in a litter. She groan d and shrieked with pain. Mr Stephen then went up to her, and, taking a small piece of red flannel, placed it on the nape of her neck and blow ; he did the same to her spine, and afterwards to the affected parts, after which lie drew his hands over the arms and body, and then commanding the pain to leave her, ordered her to rise, whereupon she rose, crying with joy, and thanking alternately the Almighty and Mr Stephen. In my presence Mr Stephen treated 28 cases. Public opinion runs against him. Some say that all his patients arc swindlers, others that he only gives temporary relief; but I was never more astonished in my life.